Man found guilty of snatching bank bag

GRAHAM — A jury found a Durham man guilty Thursday of snatching a bank bag from a Wells Fargo employee in Mebane in 2013.

Dwayne Curtis Bond, 45, of 510 Maymont Drive, Durham, was on trial for common law robbery and felony larceny. He’d been accused of grabbing a bank bag from a woman as she entered the Wells Fargo on South Fifth Street in Mebane the morning of April 23, 2013.

Inside the bag was $1,584.19 in cash and more than $61,000 in checks. The checks were never recovered.

But when an Orange County investigator searched the vehicle Bond and another man were in later that day, the cash — all $1,584.19 of it — along with red and black gloves and hooded sweatshirt the woman described the thief as wearing, were found inside, Alamance County Assistant District Attorney Craig Thompson said.

Eyewitnesses watched the men drive away in a Honda that had been reported stolen out of Durham. A manager at Tanglewood Apartments happened to be on the phone with Mebane police when she spotted that car streak into the parking lot there, with two men quickly hopping into a BMW and speeding off, Thompson said.

Investigators stopped the BMW in Orange County and recovered the contents.

Jurors found Bond guilty of felony larceny but not guilty of common law robbery, which under state law requires the threat of violence to the victim.